Life is a Spiritual Struggle:
The author started this passage out by talking through personal experience which made this passage much easier to follow and more interesting to read. He is a teacher that does kickboxing which reminds me of a movie I saw before called “Here comes the boom” starring Kevin James. In the movie Kevin James takes up martial arts to help raise money for the schools music program. This passage reminded me of the movie because they both fought for other reasons than just to fight, Kevin James fought for the music program and this teacher fights because it teaches him to be tough and to never give up.
Admittance to a Better Life:
This is a story of an African American man who lives on the street and he talks from his personal perspective of what education really is. I found this interesting because we always talk about what we think it means to be educated and I like how we could see it from someone else’s perspective that is living such a different lifestyle. In this story he uses education to get himself off the streets and into a better life and overall I just really like how he used his education and how he took pride in it.
This I Believe: This passage starts off with a question “what makes a person smart?” I found this very interesting because it got me thinking, what really does make a person smart? I continued on reading the passage and we were told that his grandmother was not born in the United States, and she came here on a boat when she was about 21 years old. The author went on to tell us about her life and how she never really had any form of education. His grandmother work in a fabric store and she found that she could do long number problems in her head that even educated people would have a hard time with. Although his grandmother was never educated she was very comfortable with the metric system and the American number system. So was his grandmother smart? I would say yes she seemed very smart and I don’t think that in order to me smart you have to be educated.
The author started this passage out by talking through personal experience which made this passage much easier to follow and more interesting to read. He is a teacher that does kickboxing which reminds me of a movie I saw before called “Here comes the boom” starring Kevin James. In the movie Kevin James takes up martial arts to help raise money for the schools music program. This passage reminded me of the movie because they both fought for other reasons than just to fight, Kevin James fought for the music program and this teacher fights because it teaches him to be tough and to never give up.
Admittance to a Better Life:
This is a story of an African American man who lives on the street and he talks from his personal perspective of what education really is. I found this interesting because we always talk about what we think it means to be educated and I like how we could see it from someone else’s perspective that is living such a different lifestyle. In this story he uses education to get himself off the streets and into a better life and overall I just really like how he used his education and how he took pride in it.
This I Believe:
This passage starts off with a question “what makes a person smart?” I found this very interesting because it got me thinking, what really does make a person smart? I continued on reading the passage and we were told that his grandmother was not born in the United States, and she came here on a boat when she was about 21 years old. The author went on to tell us about her life and how she never really had any form of education. His grandmother work in a fabric store and she found that she could do long number problems in her head that even educated people would have a hard time with. Although his grandmother was never educated she was very comfortable with the metric system and the American number system. So was his grandmother smart? I would say yes she seemed very smart and I don’t think that in order to me smart you have to be educated.